UNICEF Ukraine is seeking four committed and technically strong Health Officers to support the delivery of health and nutrition programmes for children and families in the field offices of Odesa, Kharkiv, Dnipro and Lviv. Working in a context marked by the impact of war on health systems, increasing mental health needs, immunization equity challenges, and the need for stronger support to children with disabilities and other vulnerabilities, Health Officers will play a key role in advancing UNICEF's mission to ensure every child survives, thrives and reaches their full potential. The successful candidates will provide technical, operational and coordination support across programme planning, implementation, monitoring and partnership-building, contributing to both emergency response and longer-term health system strengthening efforts. They will work closely with government counterparts, health partners and UNICEF teams to improve access to quality child health, nutrition, immunization, early childhood development, mental health and rehabilitation services, particularly for the most vulnerable and conflict-affected populations. This is an opportunity to make a direct impact on the lives of children in Ukraine by helping to build more resilient, equitable and child-centered health systems at both local and national levels.
UNICEF Mongolia seeks to establish a Long-Term Agreement (LTA) with qualified individual consultants to provide simultaneous and consecutive interpretation, written translation, and editing services between Mongolian and English (and vice versa) to the UNICEF Mongolia Country Office.
The LTA will be established for a two-year period, with services requested on an as-needed, call-down basis. It aims to ensure timely access to qualified language professionals, maintain the quality and consistency of language services, and streamline the engagement of consultants while reducing the need for repeated competitive selection processes for individual assignments.
Join UNICEF Ukraine as a WASH Manager (P-4, TA) in Odesa and lead WASH programme implementation, emergency response, and partnerships across southern Ukraine, helping deliver essential services and sustainable solutions for vulnerable children and communities.
The Uganda Country Office seeks an individual consultant to review and respond to the Office-wide and section-specific collaboration, internal communication and knowledge management needs of UCO. The consultant will apply a user-centred approach to design and implement a sustainable digital workplace using SharePoint and the wider Microsoft 365 ecosystem.
UNICEF is looking for a senior public health professional ready to take on a high-impact emergency role. Work at the heart of high-level decision-making, gain emergency leadership experience valued across UNICEF's global humanitarian network, and see your expertise protect children and families every day.Ready to lead when it matters most? Bring your drive and apply today.
Join UNICEF’s Global WASH Practice and help accelerate access to safely managed, climate-resilient sanitation services for children and communities worldwide. Based in Nairobi, you will provide strategic leadership and technical assistance to governments and UNICEF Country Offices, driving sanitation system strengthening, sector financing, policy reform, innovation, and equitable service delivery. You will lead global efforts across sanitation, WASH in Schools, and Menstrual Health and Hygiene, while supporting climate resilience, governance reforms, digital solutions, and resource mobilization. Working with partners across development and humanitarian settings, you will help shape policies, strengthen institutions, mobilize investments, and scale sustainable solutions that improve outcomes for the most vulnerable children and families. This is a unique opportunity to influence global WASH priorities and contribute to UNICEF’s mission of leaving no child behind
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This Generic Vacancy Announcement (GVA) is issued to identify and assess qualified professionals for potential inclusion in UNICEF's Talent Group for Supply Management. The purpose of this GVA is to build a pool of pre-assessed, high-caliber candidates who can be considered for future positions aligned with UNICEF's strategic priorities and operational needs. While placement in the Talent Group does not guarantee selection for a specific post, it serves as a highly valuable and primary resource for swiftly filling future vacancies.
UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children's lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.
At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we are needed. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.
UNICEF is a place where careers are built: we offer our staff diverse opportunities for professional and personal development that will help them reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children and communities across the world. We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.
Visit our website to learn more about what we do at UNICEF.
This assignment aims to strengthen UNICEF’s global leadership on menstrual health and hygiene (MHH) by advancing advocacy, accountability, monitoring, knowledge management and partnerships. The consultant will support implementation of the global MHH agenda, including tracking progress against commitments, strengthening country-level monitoring systems, facilitating stakeholder engagement, and promoting knowledge-sharing. The role will also support the UNICEF–Kimberly-Clark partnership through advocacy, capacity building, resource development, programme learning, and cross-country exchange to improve health, education and wellbeing outcomes for girls and women.
The Government of Uzbekistan is advancing education reforms to support competency-based education (CBE) and improve learning outcomes. Through the Smart-ED Project for Improving the Quality and Efficiency of Education Services, UNICEF, in partnership with national counterparts, is supporting efforts to strengthen systems for evaluating and developing teachers and school leaders across preschool and general secondary education, including the introduction of performance appraisal mechanisms.
Uzbekistan has established professional standards, teacher attestation, and school leader certification systems, providing a strong foundation for accountability, career progression, and professional growth. As reforms continue, there is an opportunity to further strengthen these systems to better support the competencies required for effective teaching and leadership in a CBE environment.
International experience shows that effective teacher quality systems combine periodic attestation with continuous performance appraisal that provides regular feedback, mentoring, and professional development opportunities. Building on ongoing reforms, this assignment will strengthen the existing teacher attestation system and develop a performance appraisal framework for teachers and school leaders aligned with professional standards, competency-based education, and the national education quality assurance framework. The assignment will also develop practical tools, guidelines, and capacity-building resources to support implementation and promote continuous professional growth, school improvement, and better learning outcomes.
UNICEF Mongolia is implementing WASH interventions to improve access to safe, climate-resilient water, sanitation and hygiene services for children and vulnerable communities, including through schools, kindergartens, health facilities and rural communities. The programme generates substantial evidence, lessons learned, tools, good practices and implementation experiences that need to be systematically captured and made accessible for programme learning, advocacy, resource mobilization and replication. The purpose of this consultancy is to provide ongoing knowledge management and documentation support to the UNICEF Mongolia WASH programme, including organizing programme information, documenting results and lessons learned, maintaining knowledge resources, and supporting the development of knowledge and communication products for programme learning, advocacy and resource mobilization
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The purpose of this consultancy is to provide technical support for the development of an Integrated Parenting Support Framework (IPF) for Uzbekistan, building on existing parenting support interventions, standards, procedures and service-delivery platforms. The consultant will undertake a focused desk-based mapping and strategic gap analysis across health, preschool education, child protection and social protection. The review will encompass Universal Progressive Home Visiting (UPHV), parenting standards and standard operating procedures (SOPs) prepared for the National Agency for Social Protection (NASP) and the Ministry of Preschool and School Education (MoPSE), and relevant digital tools such as Bebbo and Internet of Good Things (IoGT). It will examine the coherence, coverage, inclusion and institutional complementarity of these instruments.
The National Consultant will provide technical/operational support and monitoring throughout implementation of
activities to facilitate the management and delivery of results and to strengthen national ownership of the activities,
ensuring efficiency, quality assurance and value for money.
The National Consultant will also contribute to ensuring close liaison with the Government at different levels and support UNICEF in the development of TORs in line with established rules and procedures.
UNICEF seeks an international consultant for the period January 2027 – December 2028 to
provide high-level strategic and technical expertise to translate the Strategy into an operational framework of standards, tools, mechanisms, SOPs and professional development resources that can be implemented, tested, refined and progressively integrated into Uzbekistan’s education system.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide technical leadership for the analysis of behavioural, social and structural (institutiona and system) determinants of positive parenting practices and caregiver engagement with parenting-support services and cross-sectoral systems to inform the development of an Integrated Parenting Framework. The analysis will examine factors influencing parenting practices and caregiver engagement with relevant services and platforms, with particular attention to strengthening the complementarity and integration of parenting support across existing service-delivery platforms, including the Universal Progressive Home Visiting (UPHV), social service, and pre-school education workforces, as well as parenting applications and digital platforms, like Bebbo and Internet of Good Things (IoGT).
Support effective implementation of inclusive, gender- and disability-responsive, climate-resilient WASH in Schools, menstrual hygiene management and related infrastructure interventions in the Republic of the Marshall Islands under the WINSPIRE and REnew Pacific programmes.
The consultant will provide on-the-ground technical expertise across design review, planning, construction supervision, monitoring, quality assurance, coordination and capacity strengthening to ensure infrastructure and services are timely, functional, sustainable and aligned with agreed standards.
Location:Fiji/Pacific Island Countries, Marshall Islands
Can you influence the decisions that shape Angola’s WASH agenda? Are you a respected WASH professional with the experience to guide policy, strengthen institutions, and mobilize partners towards a common vision? Do you thrive on turning complex challenges into sustainable solutions that improve the lives of children and communities? UNICEF Angola is seeking an exceptional WASH Specialist to provide strategic leadership, technical expertise and partnership engagement in support of equitable, climate-resilient and sustainable WASH services across the country. If you are ready to shape systems, influence change, and leave a lasting legacy for children in Angola, we encourage you to apply. For every child, safe water, sanitation, and a healthier future.
An integrated approach that aligns curriculum and teaching-learning materials (TLM) to promote positive teaching practices is essential for future reforms to succeed. For this reason, TLM quality assurance guidelines and tools will be developed as part of a Quality Assurance Framework for Developing TLMs, along with criteria for their assessment, adaptation, and selection.
Within the framework of the SmartED Project funded by the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB), the Arab
Coordination Group (ACG), and the Global Partnership for Education (GPE), UNICEF, in collaboration with the Government
of Uzbekistan, is supporting national efforts to strengthen an inclusive education system in which every child can access
quality education, participate meaningfully in learning and school life, and achieve their full potential.
As part of this support, UNICEF is assisting the development and operationalization of the Inclusive Education Strategy of
Uzbekistan (the “Strategy”). The Strategy defines a shared vision and strategic directions for developing inclusive
education systems and classrooms, and provides for a clear set of standards, requirements, processes and standard
operating procedures (SOPs) to be institutionalized and to contribute to the revision of the existing legislative framework.
Under the overall guidance of the ECE/D Specialist and direct supervision of the ECD Officer, the Individual Consultant will support the implementation and monitoring of preschool education initiatives, with a particular focus on the capacity development components of project activities aimed at improving the quality of preschool education in Uzbekistan.
UNICEF Ukraine is seeking four committed and technically strong Health Officers to support the delivery of health and nutrition programmes for children and families in the field offices of Odesa, Kharkiv, Dnipro and Lviv. Working in a context marked by the impact of war on health systems, increasing mental health needs, immunization equity challenges, and the need for stronger support to children with disabilities and other vulnerabilities, Health Officers will play a key role in advancing UNICEF's mission to ensure every child survives, thrives and reaches their full potential. The successful candidates will provide technical, operational and coordination support across programme planning, implementation, monitoring and partnership-building, contributing to both emergency response and longer-term health system strengthening efforts. They will work closely with government counterparts, health partners and UNICEF teams to improve access to quality child health, nutrition, immunization, early childhood development, mental health and rehabilitation services, particularly for the most vulnerable and conflict-affected populations. This is an opportunity to make a direct impact on the lives of children in Ukraine by helping to build more resilient, equitable and child-centered health systems at both local and national levels.
UNICEF Mongolia seeks to establish a Long-Term Agreement (LTA) with qualified individual consultants to provide simultaneous and consecutive interpretation, written translation, and editing services between Mongolian and English (and vice versa) to the UNICEF Mongolia Country Office.
The LTA will be established for a two-year period, with services requested on an as-needed, call-down basis. It aims to ensure timely access to qualified language professionals, maintain the quality and consistency of language services, and streamline the engagement of consultants while reducing the need for repeated competitive selection processes for individual assignments.
Join UNICEF Ukraine as a WASH Manager (P-4, TA) in Odesa and lead WASH programme implementation, emergency response, and partnerships across southern Ukraine, helping deliver essential services and sustainable solutions for vulnerable children and communities.
The Uganda Country Office seeks an individual consultant to review and respond to the Office-wide and section-specific collaboration, internal communication and knowledge management needs of UCO. The consultant will apply a user-centred approach to design and implement a sustainable digital workplace using SharePoint and the wider Microsoft 365 ecosystem.
UNICEF is looking for a senior public health professional ready to take on a high-impact emergency role. Work at the heart of high-level decision-making, gain emergency leadership experience valued across UNICEF's global humanitarian network, and see your expertise protect children and families every day.Ready to lead when it matters most? Bring your drive and apply today.
Join UNICEF’s Global WASH Practice and help accelerate access to safely managed, climate-resilient sanitation services for children and communities worldwide. Based in Nairobi, you will provide strategic leadership and technical assistance to governments and UNICEF Country Offices, driving sanitation system strengthening, sector financing, policy reform, innovation, and equitable service delivery. You will lead global efforts across sanitation, WASH in Schools, and Menstrual Health and Hygiene, while supporting climate resilience, governance reforms, digital solutions, and resource mobilization. Working with partners across development and humanitarian settings, you will help shape policies, strengthen institutions, mobilize investments, and scale sustainable solutions that improve outcomes for the most vulnerable children and families. This is a unique opportunity to influence global WASH priorities and contribute to UNICEF’s mission of leaving no child behind
The Procurement Services (PS) mechanism is an integral part of UNICEF programmes of cooperation, and allows UNICEF to make its procurement capacity, scale and expertise available to partners. Advertisement Summary
This Generic Vacancy Announcement (GVA) is issued to identify and assess qualified professionals for potential inclusion in UNICEF's Talent Group for Supply Management. The purpose of this GVA is to build a pool of pre-assessed, high-caliber candidates who can be considered for future positions aligned with UNICEF's strategic priorities and operational needs. While placement in the Talent Group does not guarantee selection for a specific post, it serves as a highly valuable and primary resource for swiftly filling future vacancies.
UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children's lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.
At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we are needed. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.
UNICEF is a place where careers are built: we offer our staff diverse opportunities for professional and personal development that will help them reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children and communities across the world. We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.
Visit our website to learn more about what we do at UNICEF.
This assignment aims to strengthen UNICEF’s global leadership on menstrual health and hygiene (MHH) by advancing advocacy, accountability, monitoring, knowledge management and partnerships. The consultant will support implementation of the global MHH agenda, including tracking progress against commitments, strengthening country-level monitoring systems, facilitating stakeholder engagement, and promoting knowledge-sharing. The role will also support the UNICEF–Kimberly-Clark partnership through advocacy, capacity building, resource development, programme learning, and cross-country exchange to improve health, education and wellbeing outcomes for girls and women.
The Government of Uzbekistan is advancing education reforms to support competency-based education (CBE) and improve learning outcomes. Through the Smart-ED Project for Improving the Quality and Efficiency of Education Services, UNICEF, in partnership with national counterparts, is supporting efforts to strengthen systems for evaluating and developing teachers and school leaders across preschool and general secondary education, including the introduction of performance appraisal mechanisms.
Uzbekistan has established professional standards, teacher attestation, and school leader certification systems, providing a strong foundation for accountability, career progression, and professional growth. As reforms continue, there is an opportunity to further strengthen these systems to better support the competencies required for effective teaching and leadership in a CBE environment.
International experience shows that effective teacher quality systems combine periodic attestation with continuous performance appraisal that provides regular feedback, mentoring, and professional development opportunities. Building on ongoing reforms, this assignment will strengthen the existing teacher attestation system and develop a performance appraisal framework for teachers and school leaders aligned with professional standards, competency-based education, and the national education quality assurance framework. The assignment will also develop practical tools, guidelines, and capacity-building resources to support implementation and promote continuous professional growth, school improvement, and better learning outcomes.
UNICEF Mongolia is implementing WASH interventions to improve access to safe, climate-resilient water, sanitation and hygiene services for children and vulnerable communities, including through schools, kindergartens, health facilities and rural communities. The programme generates substantial evidence, lessons learned, tools, good practices and implementation experiences that need to be systematically captured and made accessible for programme learning, advocacy, resource mobilization and replication. The purpose of this consultancy is to provide ongoing knowledge management and documentation support to the UNICEF Mongolia WASH programme, including organizing programme information, documenting results and lessons learned, maintaining knowledge resources, and supporting the development of knowledge and communication products for programme learning, advocacy and resource mobilization
Short free text, that is visible in TMS without opening the actual VA on the job portal. It is not part of the branded VA, but it is needed in the VA front page.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide technical support for the development of an Integrated Parenting Support Framework (IPF) for Uzbekistan, building on existing parenting support interventions, standards, procedures and service-delivery platforms. The consultant will undertake a focused desk-based mapping and strategic gap analysis across health, preschool education, child protection and social protection. The review will encompass Universal Progressive Home Visiting (UPHV), parenting standards and standard operating procedures (SOPs) prepared for the National Agency for Social Protection (NASP) and the Ministry of Preschool and School Education (MoPSE), and relevant digital tools such as Bebbo and Internet of Good Things (IoGT). It will examine the coherence, coverage, inclusion and institutional complementarity of these instruments.
The National Consultant will provide technical/operational support and monitoring throughout implementation of
activities to facilitate the management and delivery of results and to strengthen national ownership of the activities,
ensuring efficiency, quality assurance and value for money.
The National Consultant will also contribute to ensuring close liaison with the Government at different levels and support UNICEF in the development of TORs in line with established rules and procedures.
UNICEF seeks an international consultant for the period January 2027 – December 2028 to
provide high-level strategic and technical expertise to translate the Strategy into an operational framework of standards, tools, mechanisms, SOPs and professional development resources that can be implemented, tested, refined and progressively integrated into Uzbekistan’s education system.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide technical leadership for the analysis of behavioural, social and structural (institutiona and system) determinants of positive parenting practices and caregiver engagement with parenting-support services and cross-sectoral systems to inform the development of an Integrated Parenting Framework. The analysis will examine factors influencing parenting practices and caregiver engagement with relevant services and platforms, with particular attention to strengthening the complementarity and integration of parenting support across existing service-delivery platforms, including the Universal Progressive Home Visiting (UPHV), social service, and pre-school education workforces, as well as parenting applications and digital platforms, like Bebbo and Internet of Good Things (IoGT).
Support effective implementation of inclusive, gender- and disability-responsive, climate-resilient WASH in Schools, menstrual hygiene management and related infrastructure interventions in the Republic of the Marshall Islands under the WINSPIRE and REnew Pacific programmes.
The consultant will provide on-the-ground technical expertise across design review, planning, construction supervision, monitoring, quality assurance, coordination and capacity strengthening to ensure infrastructure and services are timely, functional, sustainable and aligned with agreed standards.
Location:Fiji/Pacific Island Countries, Marshall Islands
Can you influence the decisions that shape Angola’s WASH agenda? Are you a respected WASH professional with the experience to guide policy, strengthen institutions, and mobilize partners towards a common vision? Do you thrive on turning complex challenges into sustainable solutions that improve the lives of children and communities? UNICEF Angola is seeking an exceptional WASH Specialist to provide strategic leadership, technical expertise and partnership engagement in support of equitable, climate-resilient and sustainable WASH services across the country. If you are ready to shape systems, influence change, and leave a lasting legacy for children in Angola, we encourage you to apply. For every child, safe water, sanitation, and a healthier future.
An integrated approach that aligns curriculum and teaching-learning materials (TLM) to promote positive teaching practices is essential for future reforms to succeed. For this reason, TLM quality assurance guidelines and tools will be developed as part of a Quality Assurance Framework for Developing TLMs, along with criteria for their assessment, adaptation, and selection.
Within the framework of the SmartED Project funded by the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB), the Arab
Coordination Group (ACG), and the Global Partnership for Education (GPE), UNICEF, in collaboration with the Government
of Uzbekistan, is supporting national efforts to strengthen an inclusive education system in which every child can access
quality education, participate meaningfully in learning and school life, and achieve their full potential.
As part of this support, UNICEF is assisting the development and operationalization of the Inclusive Education Strategy of
Uzbekistan (the “Strategy”). The Strategy defines a shared vision and strategic directions for developing inclusive
education systems and classrooms, and provides for a clear set of standards, requirements, processes and standard
operating procedures (SOPs) to be institutionalized and to contribute to the revision of the existing legislative framework.
Under the overall guidance of the ECE/D Specialist and direct supervision of the ECD Officer, the Individual Consultant will support the implementation and monitoring of preschool education initiatives, with a particular focus on the capacity development components of project activities aimed at improving the quality of preschool education in Uzbekistan.
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